Of course, you can't blame the writers for going in a different direction than viewers anticipated, but we know GOT fans can be more than a little touchy about this stuff in general! “I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh !””īecause so many fans were under the impression that Arya was gay, her sex scene with Gendry drew quite a bit of backlash. “At first, I thought it was a prank,” Williams added. Weiss were known for sending out fake script pages to protect spoilers and attempt to fool the cast, and Williams initially thought she was being pranked. “I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So… yeah. “The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry,” Maisie said during a Teen Vogue Firsts video interview. Arya's sexuality was never specifically addressed until season 8, but fans generally assumed that the tomboy-ish character identified as queer. Williams debuted as Arya Stark in the very first episode of the HBO show when she was just 12 years old, and would go on to become one of the most popular stars of the mega-successful fantasy series over the next eight years. Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has addressed her character's 'controversial' sex scene in the final season, revealing that she was surprised when she first read about it in the script - but probably not for the reason you might expect.
